The approach of Easter has me feeling nostalgic for old-time recipes. This Ham Loaf comes from my Aunt Myra, a woman I may never have known but feel connected to thanks to her recipe — and helps use up leftover ham after Easter. ~ Skip Straight to the Recipe ~ Remembering Aunt Myra All families have one. Ours was Aunt Myra, an aunt by marriage when she hitched up with Great Uncle Edward after his first wife passed on. Did Aunt Myra and I ever meet? It’s hard to say. Even my father remembers her little. So when my cousin LeAnne sent me a recipe called “Myra’s Ham Loaf” and said it had been her mother’s and our grandmother’s recipe, I just knew the recipe came from this almost-forgotten aunt. As food and recipes increasingly come from celebrity chefs and noted cookbook authors and even food bloggers like me, we lose a part of our own heritage, the connection to long-gone or recently lost members of the family who passed their best recipes from one generation to the next.

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From my family's cookbook, a great brunch recipe, scrambled eggs for a crowd. All the prep is done ahead of time, leaving just the cooking for last-minute. The eggs hold well for a short period in the oven or on a warming tray. A crowd favorite! To rush would be a crime 'Cause nice and easy does it every time. - from the 1960 song 'Nice'n'Easy' arranged by Nelson Riddle, performed by Frank Sinatra. If you like, listen on YouTube . “Nice ‘n’ Easy,” said the white-coiffed woman to the man beside her at a Frank Sinatra tribute concert late last year. “That was our song back then, honey. Remember how I was worried you were so serious, so fast?” He moved his hand resting on the the bend of his cane onto her knee and patted it gently, his worn gold ring too large for bony fingers. “Fifty-seven years,” she chuckled. “Nice and easy, alright.” The trick to these easy scrambled eggs is cooking them ‘nice ‘n’ easy’ – that means slowly at a low te